Artist Quotes · Page 216

The most famous living artist in America is Andy Warhol, unfortunately.

— John Heilpern

“All artist of some measure contemplative.”

— Evelyn Underhill

Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.

— William Hazlitt

Art is a delivery system for worldviews.

— Alex Grey

To me, art is the glorification of the human spirit.

— Hans Hofmann

All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

— Iris Murdoch

Paintings are painted with paint, not with ideas.

— Stephane Mallarme

I'm interested in the movement of the eyes across the painting.

— Guido Molinari

Street art, of course, is political, because it's illegal, so the very act of doing it is an act of defiance.

— Shepard Fairey

Flat, uninteresting parts of paintings are, in fact, a ruse to get the viewer to see what needs to be seen.

— Robert Genn

We want Realism's wealth of experience and Symbolism's depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.

— Cesare Pavese

In art it is always as though the question is what the work of art is really about.

— Roger Scruton

The awesome thing about being an artist? You can't be fired from your own mind.

— Rose McGowan

Great American art needs the idea of uninterrupted spaces, like a loft, which itself is something very American.

— Renzo Piano

The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Art, like science, progresses, and to me it's bizarre that a lot of acclaimed and popular and respectable books are not advancing…

— David Shields

Maybe I don't have the same sense of humor. Maybe people aren't comfortable gauging a painting that way. They think that if…

— Joe Bradley

Art is, for me, the process of trying to wake up the soul. Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that…

— Bill Viola

The reason they look the way they do is that the first drawing I did of them was really small so I…

— Craig McCracken

A lot of the songs are pretty unmasked. If you listen to "As Cool As I Am," it's not all that different…

— Dar Williams

Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human…

— Abraham Maslow

Focusing totally on technique, you lose the essence and power of simplicity... The other extreme is just as bad; you see it…

— George L. Carlson

The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the…

— Thomas Kinkade

Art makes people do a double take and then, if they're looking at the picture, maybe they'll read the text under it…

— Eric Drooker

Only a sad man can be a good artist.

— IndraneeL

Imagine a painter crucified by his subject!

— John Ashbery

I'm going to die unhappy. That's how artists roll!

— Iliza Shlesinger

The love of gain never made a painter; but it has marred many.

— Washington Allston

“The appeal of modern art remained a mystery to him.”

— Dan Brown

“In art, the present is the eternal.”

— Kakuzo Okakura

Why is the industry engineered to keep the artists in debt?

— Jadakiss

Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it.

— Marcel Duchamp

Art to me was a state: it didn't need to be an accomplishment.

— Margaret Caroline Anderson

“Sex is an art; those who know better are the better artists.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

I had a big collection of fried eggs that I painted

— Shakira

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

— Pablo Picasso

Art is hard for a puritan to understand.

— Gunter Grass

The artist is the antenna of the race.

— Ezra Pound

All artists are illusionists of one kind or another.

— Mike Svob

All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.

— Irving Stone